Site verification

Is it just the root of my server that looks a bit like this? With the upcoming
launch of Twitter’s analytics service for website owners (which will
presumably require some kind of verification), I was wondering:

Why isn’t there a standard, similar to
robots.txt, for verifying that you own a domain?
verification.txt?

I can’t think of a reason each service needs more than a few alphanumeric
characters for this.

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My name’s Alex Muller.

I’ve completed two years of undergraduate study (in Computer Science and Maths) at the University of York.

I worked at GlaxoSmithKline, a large pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare company, from July 2010 until September 2011.

I'm nearly finished my final year of university, in which I learnt loads of Python, a ton of probability & statistics and took a course titled “Crypto, Attacks & Countermeasures”. And I had an incredibly fun final-year project to boot.

It’s brill. I've loved this year so much that I had to look up the source of a quote that keeps coming to mind. Turns out it's apparently Confucius: “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

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